RIOT AT NEWCASTLE
FREE LABOURS FREE FIGHT
POLICE REINFORCED
United Press Association—By Electric TclO'
graph—Copyright.
SYDNEY, 23rd February.
| A number of free labourers who had 'just been paid off at a shipping office at Newcastle yesterday were crossing a street when a unionist hurled a muchused epithet descriptive of his scorn far volunteer workers.
Tlren tho trouble started. Ho was chased, others joined in, and almost instantly half a dozen free fights- were in progress.
Tio police arrived and made one arrestt, and restored peace for a time.
The crowds grew, however, evidently awaitiug the next outbreak. This was uot.loKg in coming. A row started in an hotel bar, spread outside, and when a policeman arrested the man who appeared to be tho principal in tho affair sympathisers asked why tho free labourer was not taken too, and began to close in threateningly. Police reinforcements arrived, got their man to tho station, and arrested four others.
A number of hotheads seemed inclined to iwscue their mates from the lock-up, bust wiser counsels prevailed, and eventually the crowds dispersed.
The West&rn miners, by a 5 to 1 vote, decided against an "all out" policy.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1930, Page 9
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193RIOT AT NEWCASTLE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1930, Page 9
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